I came across this post on Reddit asking what people would like to see in the next PHP: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/s/l9r8UJP6Rk
There are two major proposals I would make, both of which aim to greatly improve PHP’s competitiveness and ecosystem, while maintaining its spirit and what makes it great. And one minor proposal. I wrote them on Reddit, but then I realized I should actually do something about it. The last time I did something was in 2015 writing to the PHP list back then.
How do I get rights to create my own RFCs for these? I tried to do it on the web, but it says to ask on the mailing list. Here are my bona fides: I’ve spent about 20 years with PHP, to be honest, and the last 14 building an open-source community platform / CMS that competes with Facebook, Twitter, etc. and uses very idiomatic PHP. Here are two links in case anyone is interested
https://github.com/Qbix
https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/
Anyway without further ado, I would like to present the two proposals:
First one: introduce switch_global_context($name)